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OI IV. _TBE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.ANOTHER ARREST.Aminwii arrested last night, and is under delen tion at Leman-stceet Police station (or inquiries to day,]MPORTANT STATEMENTS BY THE •* SUSPECT.EXTRAORDINARY DEMEANOUR.AN ALLEGED VERY DANGEROUS LUNATIC.ri he Press Association says routn impartaajs is attnohfd by the police to the arrest made at the King* street Police-station, Whitehall. On Tuesday m rma? the man entered the above-named station about nine o’deck, and complained of having lost a black bag. While the officials were takiug note of his case, be commenced talking about the Whitechapel murders, and c fitted to cut off the sergeant s head, and other rambling cesser te. It will be remembered that several people Lave testified to seeing a man with a black bag in tbs legion of the murders, and who has not since been traced. The fact was at onoe remembered by the police, and the man was furthered questioned. In answer to the inquiry as to his business, be said he studied for tome years for the medical profession bat gave it up for engineering, and that he had been stopping for soma nights in coffee-houses. His manner then became so strange that Dr Bond, divisional surgeon, was seat for to examine the man. The doctor subsequently gave is as i his opinion that the nun was a very dangoroai lunatic of homicidal tendency, and at his appeartnie somewhat tallied with that published of the man who was seen with the murdered woman, he was removed to Bow street. But before being taken thither photographs of his person were taken. He was also asked tj write his name, and it is stated the writing is somewhat similar to that of the letters reoeived by the police and others. He gave bis age as 67, bat it is sud he looks fully twenty years younger. The polioe are endeavouring to trace his antecedents and movements f r the past few weeks.
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Hull Daily Mail
Hull, North Humberside, GB
Wed, Oct 17, 1888
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